Marking device and process for using the same



Nov. 28, 1939.

MARKING DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR USING THE SAME Filed May 24, 1938 R. HOFFMAN 2,181,606;

Patented Nov. 28, 1939 UNITED STAT MARKING 2,181,600 I I 1 DEVICE AND PRooEs'sFon USING Tun SAME I -Rose Hoffman, Hartford, Conn.

Application May 24, 1933,

5 Claims: (cum-36s);

, My invention relates more particularly to means for marking material as a guide to further operations upon such material,

as for instance, the

marking of fabrics as a guide for stitching, cut- 5 ting, etc., and more especially the marking of dresses to determine the proper and. for similar operations,

invention, among lengths of skirts and an object of my others, is the production of a device and a process for using the same that shall be most efiicient in the results obtained thereby.

My improved applying it to a objects herein set attained is illustrated in ing, in Which- Figure 1 is an is marking device and a method of fabric in the use of which the out, as well as others, may be the accompanying drawometric perspective view of an assemblage of staples embodying my invention, the coating being exaggerated by a heavy line.

Figure 2 is a view of part of a staple on greatly enlarged scale.

Figure 3 is a view in section on a plane denoted by the dotted line 3-3 of Figure 2 and showing a number of staples.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of a portion of a stapling machine illustrating the manner of applying the staples.

In the operation of obtaining the desired lengths for skirts in the art of dress making it is customary practice to denote in some way on the fabric the place where garment the bottom edge of the will be located, and it is my aim in making this invention to provide ready means for effecting this purpose with no intention, however,

of limiting the invention as it may otherwise be it is desired to establish a to use for such purpose, used in instances where line on fabric or other material to be used as a guide for subsequent operations.

In my co-pending application for patent S. No.

117,606, filed Dec.

24, 1936 I have illustrated and described a machine for marking a guide line around the bottom of a skirt suspended upon the wearer and in. which machine a stapling device is employed for pro ducing such line and which stapling device comprises, in some cases, the use of staples coated skirt at the points tom edge of said skirt. in this machine is and embodies means the point where they are to penetrate the go It is my purpose with a marking material, as chalk, which, when leaves a broken line the staples are removed or chalk mark around the which are to become the bot- The stapling device used for supplying the staples to to be forced by a plunger ods or material.

to coat the cross bars of these of staples.

of well-known construction- Serial No. 211,790

staples with a other suitable substance, so that marking material, as chalk, or

when a staple has been applied to the fabric and then removed a mark the length of the cross bar of each staple will have been made on the fabric, and these staples having been applied in a around the fabric row along and and then removed, a line consisting of short marks will be left to form a guide in the further operation of establishing the bottom edge of the skirt.

In a well-known manner of arranging these staples for use in the machines, such staples are secured together side by side as shown in Figure 1, an adhesive being used to cause temporary adherence of the staples one time as the staples are removed to another until such one 'by one by operation of the plunger of the stapling device on the staples at the advance or front end of the row accomplishing my In a most satisfactory manner of purpose I apply the marking material to the bottom of the trough 6 created by the arrangement of the staples just described, so that cross bar 1 of each staple 8 plunger from the group or row side by side, as

the inner surfaces of the when separated by the comprising the trough will be supplied with the marking material, and

while it is my purpose to apply such material in the manner just set forth, any means whereby each staple will have the marking material thereon when applied to the fabric as described will be within invention.

the spirit and intent of my In a preferred manner of applying the marking ingredient to the staples such moistened so that may be applied by a trough, and when dried brush to the will be in it will adhere to the material to which the staple is applied and in a manner to leave ingredient when the staple be understood that my invention i ingredient is it will comprise a paste which bottom of the such state that a mark of such is removed, but it will s not limited to this means for applying the ingredient to the material.

As illustrated in the drawing he shaped assemblage to which a coa applied, as hereinbefore set a magazine by the plunger ll into the fabric tom portion of a skirt. These rein the trough ting 9 has been out, is contained in i0 and each of the staples is forced l2, as the botstaples will be applied in succession in a row as the fabric is moved past an anvil I3, and when the row is completed the staples are removed and a row comprising a succession of small lines or dashes will have been formed upon the fabric to indicate a subsequent operation in finishing the bottom of other means and applied to uses other than those above set out.

I claim:

1. A marking device comprising a staple having a transferable marking substance applied to the under side of the cross bar thereof for contact with material when the staple is inserted therein.

2. An assemblage of staples side by side in the form of a trough and having a transferable marking substance applied to the inside of the bottom of the trough for contact with material when the staples are inserted therein.

3. The process for marking material that consists in inserting in such material a staple having its cross bar treated with a transferable ingredient, contacting the cross bar with the material and. then removing such staple to leave a mark upon the material.

4. The process for marking material that consists in inserting in such material a succession in a row of staples having their cross bars treated with a transferable ingredient, contacting the 10 cross bar with the material and then removing such staples and thereby leaving a row of short marks or dashes extending along said material.

5. An assemblage of staples in which said staples are temporarily separably attached one to another side by side in the form of a trough and having a transferable marking substance applied to the inside of the bottom of the trough for contact with material as each staple is separated from the assembly and inserted into such material. 20

ROSE HOFFMAN. 

